NEW FOSSIL SITE FOUND IN ERITREA, EAST AFRICA


See Physical Anthropology: The Core, Chapter 10, page 238; Physical Anthropology, 6th edition, page 406.

In the January 5, 1996 issue of Science, a report of a new region containing hominid fossils was found. The location is in the Danakil Desert of Eritrea, located north of Ethiopia about 500 kilometers (311 miles) north of Hadar. In December a team of Eritrean and Italian paleontologists recovered several fossils that are believed to date to around 2 million years B.P. Although the finds have not yet been described, they are thought to belong to an early species of Homo.



Reference: V. Morell, "New Skull Turns Up in Northeast Africa," Science, 271 (1996), 32.


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